Back-to-school season requires parents to download multiple school-mandated apps and logins. Parents often manage several mobile apps and website-only programs for bus times, absence notifications, grades, and events. Those systems consolidate useful functions but remain fragmented, clunky, buggy, and confusing. Poor design and login flows create friction, especially for families with multiple children. Satirical depiction frames product teams as demonic figures intentionally creating convoluted login requirements and cross-app dependencies. The result is wasted time and frustration for caregivers who must navigate unstable interfaces to access essential school information.
They're for things like figuring out bus pickup timings, notifying the school about days off, and keeping parents informed about grades and special events. All of those things are helpful! (It'd be easier to have them all in one app.) But these apps and services are often clunky, buggy, and have confusing design - making it hard to figure out where to get the information you need.
I tried to imagine how the companies - the names below are all made up - that make these apps might sit around and scheme ways to make parents' lives terrible. So I imagined a morning standup meeting, like lots of tech companies have, for a product-development team: [Interior: Flaming pits of Hell.]Head Demon: Hail Satan, and evil morning, everyone. Let's each go around and talk about what we're each working on today. Lesser Demon, let's start with you. How is ParentTeam going?
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